Spectrum sharing between government agencies and commercial users is “the...
Spectrum sharing between government agencies and commercial users is “the new frontier that across government we're working on now,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said following Thursday’s FCC meeting. Genachowski was asked if he supports Commissioner Robert McDowell’s calls for an…
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executive order requiring government agencies to come to the table to discuss giving up federal spectrum (CD May 18 p1). “The president has issued an executive order setting goals and targets on spectrum recovery and there’s a strong commitment across the administration to unleashing new spectrum, including recovering spectrum from federal users for commercial use,” Genachowski said. Former NTIA Administrator Larry Irving, a Democrat, said Wednesday the White House has not done enough to force government agencies to make clear what spectrum they could give up and at what costs (CD May 24 p1). Genachowski said his remarks this week at the Cable Show on usage-based data pricing are in keeping with FCC policy (CD May 23 p2). “We've been consistent on these topics for two years, including” the net neutrality order, he said. “New business models, new services, can be a good thing for consumers, for example, ensuring that lower-using consumers aren’t subsidizing larger users,” he said. “New services shouldn’t come at the expense of competition, of increases in speed or capacity at affordable rates for broadband Internet access.”